My Girl

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My Girl

PG

1991

1h 42m

Kids & Family

Drama

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Tomboy Vada Sultenfuss (Anna Chlumsky) has good reason to be morbid: her mother died giving birth to her, and her father (Dan Aykroyd) operates a funeral service out of their home. The other kids think she's a freak, and it certainly doesn't help that her best friend, Thomas J. Sennett (Macaulay Culkin), is a boy. To make matters worse, Vada is desperately in love with her English teacher, Mr. Bixler (Griffin Dunne). What's an 11-year-old girl to do?

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Critics Consensus

My Girl has a mostly sweet story and a pair of appealing young leads, but it's largely undone by its aggressively tearjerking ending.

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Sarah Fonseca

Autostraddle

11/03/2018

When I watched My Girl as a kid, I spent 80% of the movie having Schwinn Bicycle and mood ring envy. Now, I'm also able to appreciate [the] dialogue...

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Owen Gleiberman

Entertainment Weekly

09/07/2011

C+

My Girl has some sweet, funny moments (the cast is uniformly appealing), yet it unfolds in a landscape of paralyzing, pop-psych banality.

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Variety Staff

Variety

03/26/2009

It’s a rough summer for an 11-year-old, but director Howard Zieff paints it in the manner of a watercolor of a youthful idyll.

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Matt Brunson

Film Frenzy

03/18/2025

3/4

Or, Macaulay Culkin Meets The Swarm.

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Erik Childress

The Friendship Dilemma Podcast

06/06/2024

4/4

A film that renders a beautiful adolescent friendship wonderfully played by Macaulay Culkin and Anna Chlumsky, in one of the great child performances, while also not fumbling away confronting genuine lessons about grief and loss for young people.

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Brian D. Johnson

Maclean's Magazine

10/11/2019

My Girl is an exercise in mawkish sentiment, an exploitation picture for the whole family.

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Brody W

@RT77467322 6d

Saddest movie ive ever seen. PLEASE watch it. it will change your life.

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Anonymous D

@RT31350931 Apr 27

Watched with my daughter and I'm so glad I did. We all had a good cry but there are important coming-of-age themes and conversations in the film, done in a way that feels real and humorous.

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Farah R.

@Farah Apr 26

This sweet coming-of-age story remains heartwarming and relatable decades later. The acting felt authentic, making it effortless to emotionally resonate with the characters. The heartbreaking twist at the end is what cements this film as a fundamental watch for young audiences to help them understand how to process the film's deep themes.

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Gregory M.

@Gregory780 Apr 26

The acting in this movie was really good and that plot twist bro………

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mohammed M.

@9mr_0 Jan 31

الفلم حلو . قصة عادية و خفيفة و احداث القصة واضحة بدون اي تعقيد . تفتقر القصة للحوارات العميقة و الدراما فيها سطحية مثل حواراتها لكن لازم نذكر ان الفلم طفولي. اداء الممثلين جيد التركيز الاكبر كان على البطلة التي بدورها قدمت اداء جيد . الاخراج كان جيد سرد القصة بشكل واضح يوجد بعض السرعة بالسرد لكن القصة واضحة حتى لو نسردت بسرعة ما تاثر. التصوير كان جيد الكامرة استخدمت بشكل قريب قليلا من الممثلين لكن جيد مع الوان و اضائة جيد . الموسيقى كانت مقبول تتناسب مع اجواء الفلم . بختصار هو فلم خفيف قصتة و حواراتة سطحية لكن طريقة سردة و اجوائه حلوه.

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Lani S

@Scenealot Dec 31

This was advertised as leaving Netflix and I was pretty sure I had watched it decades ago. Wow does it hold up! Who can compare their movie today? So much of this movie will remind you of when you were 10 or when you hated your mom or your grade school nemesis. And then it will break your heart.

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Howard Zieff

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Anna Chlumsky

Vada Margaret Sultenfuss

Macaulay Culkin

Thomas J. Sennett

Dan Aykroyd

Harry Sultenfuss

Jamie Lee Curtis

Shelly DeVoto

Richard Masur

Phil Sultenfuss

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Synopsis

Tomboy Vada Sultenfuss (Anna Chlumsky) has good reason to be morbid: her mother died giving birth to her, and her father (Dan Aykroyd) operates a funeral service out of their home. The other kids think she's a freak, and it certainly doesn't help that her best friend, Thomas J. Sennett (Macaulay Culkin), is a boy. To make matters worse, Vada is desperately in love with her English teacher, Mr. Bixler (Griffin Dunne). What's an 11-year-old girl to do?

Director: Howard Zieff
Producer: Brian Grazer
Screenwriter: Barbara Benedek, Laurice Elehwany
Production Co: Imagine Entertainment, Columbia Pictures Corporation
Rating: PG
Genre: Kids & Family, Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Streaming): Apr 16, 2012
Box Office (Gross USA): $60.2M
Runtime: 1h 42m
Sound Mix: Surround